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The Mobile Educational Trailer Unit in Outdoor Teaching.

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Title: The Mobile Educational Trailer Unit in Outdoor Teaching.
Authors: Rillo, Thomas J.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 17
Publication Date: 1970
Descriptors: Educational Equipment, Educational Facilities, Field Trips, Flexible Facilities, Learning Centers (Classroom), Learning Experience, Mobile Classrooms, Mobile Laboratories, Outdoor Education, Resource Materials, Teaching Conditions
Abstract: The concept of achieving mobility for outdoor teaching using a small mobile educational unit and the techniques of facilitating the mobility of equipment and supplies are discussed in this article. A small trailer unit can be used to enrich the learning experiences of students. Since the mobile educational unit is adaptable, it can be used as a classroom-laboratory on wheels. A trailer unit has many other advantages, such as: (1) the equipment can be conveyed to each school, thus saving individual schools from having to spend their limited budgets; (2) the equipment is always available and not mislead; (3) it is durable; (4) it can be constructed by school maintenance personnel or the industrial arts classes; (5) it can be utilized as a multi-purpose teaching station--i.e., a center for nature slide talks at night or a rolling nature center of live wildlife specimens; and (6) it can be used as a traveling field station for extensive and diversified field trips. Also given is a list of equipment and library references for the mobile educational unit. (NQ)
Journal Code: RIEFEB1974
Entry Date: 1974
Accession Number: ED082926
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:The concept of achieving mobility for outdoor teaching using a small mobile educational unit and the techniques of facilitating the mobility of equipment and supplies are discussed in this article. A small trailer unit can be used to enrich the learning experiences of students. Since the mobile educational unit is adaptable, it can be used as a classroom-laboratory on wheels. A trailer unit has many other advantages, such as: (1) the equipment can be conveyed to each school, thus saving individual schools from having to spend their limited budgets; (2) the equipment is always available and not mislead; (3) it is durable; (4) it can be constructed by school maintenance personnel or the industrial arts classes; (5) it can be utilized as a multi-purpose teaching station--i.e., a center for nature slide talks at night or a rolling nature center of live wildlife specimens; and (6) it can be used as a traveling field station for extensive and diversified field trips. Also given is a list of equipment and library references for the mobile educational unit. (NQ)